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Tag: rene

Clothes makes the man

Posted on June 25, 2022 by Cal

I really do like drawing and designing clothes. which is kind of odd since I don’t care at all how I dress in real life. playing with shapes, playing with ideas, the norm. trying to make believable designs that I
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Posted in BLOGTagged art, character, clothes, color, concept, design, outfit, rene
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Words about words

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Cal

As mentioned previously, I spent a couple weeks before ch3 doodling the characters and trying to streamline them more before I had to draw them in motion. In hindsight I wish I did that more for ch2, but hopefully I
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Posted in BLOGTagged arbo, armor, art, concept, design, militia, old, outfit, rene, silne, soldier
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Tattoos: part 2

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Cal

Body markings mainly serve an out-of-universe purpose of helping the audience to more easily tell non-human characters apart, but also have justified reasons in the world. Tattoos are extremely common for Arkan characters and are basically coat of arms for
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Posted in BLOGTagged avato, culture, otigo, rene, tattoo, tattoos
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Frills

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Cal

“Before him stood his bride-to-be, her angelic movements captivating the grocer utterly. Body clad in gown the color of the sky, crown adorned with sleek feathers, frills with beads of gold and white, and a smile of pearl. No other
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Posted in BiologyTagged anatomy, biology, frills, rene, science
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Rene text

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Cal

This comic is going to show a lot of different languages and accents. I never was too big a fan of the star trek-like tendency of making characters who are from very different regions speak the same language, especially in
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Posted in BLOGTagged alphabet, ancient, concept, design, dialect, font, google noto, gujarati, historical, india, language, media, noto, rene, sandskrit, text
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(c) Cal McNichols